Take-up device for telephone-cords.



W. P. CORNELL.

TK'E-UP DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE CORDS.

l'APPucATmN meu 1uLY 13. 1914.

1,1 79,700. Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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WILLIAM P. CORNELL, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

'TAKE-UP DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE-003133.

Specieation of Letters Patent.

Application led July 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,574.

- fic'ation accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to a device for taking up the slack of thereceiver cord of a telephone, although the invention.may be applied todifferent analogous purposes.

The receiver cord usually runs from thereceiver to the base of thetelephone stand and then upwardly through the post to the base of themouth-piece, and sufiicient length of cord is provided to permit thereceiver to be removed from the hook and placed at the ear of the partyusing the telephone. This receiver cord frequently becomes tangled andcatches among papers or upon ar.- ticles upon the desk or other supportfor the telephone stand.

My improvement consists of a device for automatically taking vup theslack in the cord, but which permits the cord to be eX- tended in use. j

In accordance with this invention the cord always remains in a coiladjacent the tele.- phone .stand or post when not in use, the cordcannot become tangled and does not become mixed up with papers andarticles on the desk..

. The invention is illustrated in one of its referred-forms in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of thetelephone stand provided with the improvements, showing the telephonecord in coiled position; Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view showing thetelephone cord extended; Fig. 3 is a detail side View of a portion ofone form of my flexible spring; Fig. 4 is a transverse View or end viewof Fig. `3; Fig. 5 is a side view of a portion of a modified device;

and Fig. 6 is a transverse end view of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the base of an ordinarytelephone stand having the poslt B andfmouthpiece C.

D represents the telephone hook and E the receiver. The telephone cord Fextends from the receiver at one end to the base A and my improveddevice for taking up slack comprises flexible means secured to thetelel'phone cord F substantially throughoutits length and adapted tocoil and uncoil as the telephone cordl is relaxed, as shown in Fig. 1,or extended, as shown in Fig. 2. This deyice for automatically taking upthe slack 1n the receiver cord, preferably comprises a coiled spring Gsuitably secured in-- any desired manner to the receiver cordsubstantially along its entire length. The "coiled spring may be formedof. iexible spiral spring wire of any desired metal, as` for instance,brass wire and in the form shown in the drawings this spiral spring isprovided with lcross pieces or fingers H which may be soldered theretoat suitable intervals, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4:, or else thesefingers or hooks may be in thefornr'shown in Figs. 5 and 6, comprisinpieces of wire J, looped around the spring instead of being solderedthereto. The telephone cord F is placedin the loops and the ends a ofthe loops are bent down around the cord, so that the cord conforms tothe convolutions of the spring and as the spring is extended by tak` ingup the telephone receiver E, the cord is also extended, but as thespring is relaxed, thc-.telephone cord is automatically coiled into a.substantially small compass, as illustrated in Fig. '1.

i I am not to be understood as limitingthe invention to the specificconstructions of e Patented apr., rasate.

spring shown in the figures, because' the y spiral spring `may besecured to the cord by other means than those shown.

This device has been found to operate eficiently and well in actual useand it is not only a great convenience, but saves wear and tear on thetelephone cord, which is not so apt to become broken and the covering'of the cord is protected against wear.

I claimv and desire to obtain by Letters f' Patent the following:

1. The combination with a movable telephone desk-stand, telephonereceiver and receiver support or hook, and flexible telephone cordconnected to the receiver at one end, and entering the base of the standat the other end, of a continuous flexible spiral Avspring to which thetelephone cord conforms and to vwhich said cord is secured substantiallythroughout its length, whereby the spring takes up the slack in the cordwhen the receiver is placed on the hook. l

2. As a new and improved article of manufacture, a device adapted to beapplied externally to the telephone cord of a teleg V 1,179,7oo

phone for taking vup the slack, said device specification in thepresence of two subscribcomprsinlg a exible spiral of sprng1 Wiz'ing'witnesses. 'Y the convo utons o which are rovde wit v means forsecuring the devicl to the tele- VILLIAM P' CORNELL' 5 phone cord,substantially throughout its Witnesses: l

length. y ERNEST BAYNARD VIND,

In 'testimony whereof I have signed this B. KATER MCINNES.

